Its Mirror 2013 by Dan Senn for solo flute	rorriM stI 3102 nneS naD yb etulf olos rof
Its Mirror, for solo flute, was composed using  the Raku Composition Program (RCP) developed in the early 1980s by Dan Senn while teaching at the Canberra School of Music in Australia. The compositional data for this piece was generated in 1985, in Urbana, Illinois, but the work was left unfinished. In September of 2013, Dan rediscovered the score data and set about to reinterpret it to produce a version for my Czech flutist friend Lenka Kozderková. Scribbled onto the margins of the rediscovered work score was "Its Mirror, December 9, 1985, To my flutist friends." This would have been my first flute piece but for "Close, Then Far" (2010), and Cartwheels (2004).	The (RCP) generated musical compositions to traditional staff lines using space=time notation with the work determined by a host of biases and data entered into the software by the artist before hand. The final task of the composer was to arrange this meta score, at the foreground level (what you will hear tonight), that is, fixing difficulties, sculpting, and reinterpreting the data—to breath life into the work. But since the work is already biased in the direction of the artist's personal taste, there is a strange sense expressive mirroring one must confront, thus the name of the piece. It is like finishing the design of a house that has been nicely roughed out ahead of time by your double. Purchase a PDF of the score below. Click here to see and hear a YouTube recording made inPortland (Amelia Lukas, 2019) and Prague (Lenka Kozderková, 2014). A midi version of the score can be heard here. A sound alone version of Amelia's performance can be heard by clicking play below.	Its Mirror incorporates a liberal use of  fermata to not only designate held notes and rests but actual rhythms in a line. In measure 117, for example, notes of equal value are interupted by fermatas changing the rhythm of the phrase. The best way to learn the desired rhythm is to listen to the Sibelius generated mp3 file given below. And while the piece may be interpreted broadly for performance, this Sibelius generated version should be treated as an adjunct to the visual score and especially used early on for learning the piece. Dan Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA, with his partner-collaborator, Caroline Senn. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. Dan is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more).